If presented with inaccurate statistics, even the most sophisticated query optimizers make mistakes. They may wrongly estimate the output cardinality of a certain operation and th...
Peter J. Haas, Mokhtar Kandil, Alberto Lerner, Vol...
Physical database design is critical to the performance of a large-scale DBMS. The corresponding automated design tuning tools need to select the best physical design from a large...
Querying live media streams is a challenging problem that is becoming an essential requirement in a growing number of applications. Research in multimedia information systems has ...
We present EXTENT, an image annotation system that combines the context and content information to annotate images with metadata that cannot be reliably inferred from either the c...
Chang-Ming Tsai, Arun Qamra, Edward Y. Chang, Yuan...
First generation Web-content encodes information in handwritten (HTML) Web pages. Second generation Web content generates HTML pages on demand, e.g. by filling in templates with c...
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Joost Geurts, Frank Cornel...